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On Sunday, June 6, 1971, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 serving as Flight 706 departed Los Angeles just after 6 p.m. en route to Seattle as a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II of the United States Marine Corps was approaching Marine Corps Air Station El Toro near Irvine at the end of a flight from Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada.
A U.S. Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II of the 36th TFW, Bitburg, Germany, TDY to Zaragoza Air Base, Spain, crashed on a gunnery range 25 miles from Zaragoza, killing pilot Capt. Charles A. Baldwin, 28, of Charleston, West Virginia and navigator Capt. Stephen N. Smith, 27, of Pinebrook, New Jersey. [28] 25 August
AMHC Gilbert Chavarria attached to US Navy VF-154 the Black Knights, while on board USS Coral Sea died after being blown into a parked F-4 Phantom II, by another F-4 Phantom during flight deck operations in the Sea of Japan. 22 February Blue Angels pilot Lcdr. Stu Powrie, 1970 Naval Academy graduate killed in A-4 Skyhawk crash during airshow ...
Controlled flight into terrain; see The Day the Music Died: Bar-Kays, Otis Redding: United States 1967 Four of six Bar-Kays members died: Ronnie Caldwell, Phalon Jones, Jimmy King and Carl Cunningham. Ben Cauley survived the crash and James Alexander was not on the plane. Also on board and killed was soul singer Otis Redding. Beechcraft Model 18
A Grumman A-6E Intruder, BuNo 149948, 'AJ-500', of VA-35, [30] and a McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom II from USS Nimitz collide in midair over the Atlantic Ocean during a refueling maneuver ~600 miles SSW of Scotland. The two crew of the A-6 were missing and presumed dead while the two of the F-4J were recovered. [31] 26 August
Commander J. L. Felsman, US Navy, was killed in a McDonnell F4H Phantom II, BuNo 145316, during the first attempt at "Operation Sageburner" speed record at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, when his aircraft disintegrated in the air after pitch damper failure. [79] "The resulting pilot-induced oscillation generated over 12 Gs.
It took more than 40 years, but I finally lived my “Top Gun” dream. For an hour and 40 minutes, in the back seat of a South Korean Air Force F-4 Phantom, I was “Goose” from the classic ...
The first ground fatalities from an aircraft crash occurred on 21 July 1919, when the Wingfoot Air Express crash took place. The airship crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, killing three of the five occupants of the aircraft, in addition to ten people on the ground. [1]